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Longitudinal surveys can give insight into economic mobility, which allows us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage are consequential in determining material conditions in the present, and how these markers structure economic opportunity over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic...
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The documented under-representation of marginalized groups in business ownership and the labour market is a concerning issue. This study explores how caste disparities in small-firm entrepreneurship impact on firm performance in India, focusing on the informal sector. Our examination shows a...
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Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income … mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 …
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. The paper ends with an empirical illustration comparing rural and urban and areas in the People's Republic of China and …
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This paper examines the evolution of China's industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its …
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between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …
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We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … expenditure is more unequally distributed than income in urban areas. China has a much stronger correlation in individual ranks …
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With the data on the top incomes collected from different sources, we combine the samples of the top incomes with a household survey to investigate changes in the income distribution with and without the top incomes. The Gini coefficient of income inequality using household survey data is 0.464...
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By using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988-2013, this paper … investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of …
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We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China … using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each … thereafter - a process that came to a halt in 2007. During the period in which China was a planned economy the gender wage gap …
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